With the hybrid hypercar en-vogue right now, Godzilla is getting in on the action. That's right – Nissan has confirmed exclusively to us that the 2016 Nissan GT-R Hybrid is headed to this month's New York auto show with 800 hybrid horses under the hood.

UPDATE: Happy April Fool's from all of us at MT!The 2016 Nissan GT-R Hybrid is the automaker's response to the likes of the new Acura NSX, Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P1, and Porsche 918 Spyder. "The GT-R has always been the paradigm of affordable performance, consistently beating its far-more expensive rivals," said Taro Tsujimoto, Director of Applied Technology, Supercars Under Nismo, "If a fancy Honda can be considered by some to be a hypercar, why not make the ultimate high-performance car possible?"

With its Japanese rival in mind, Tsujimoto and his team went to work on the 2016 Nissan GT-R Hybrid. Starting with the R35 GT-R we've come to know and love, the team looked to the Delta Wing and Leaf Nismo RC for both inspiration and technology.

To keep weight down while retaining the GT-R's signature all-wheel drive system, Nissan came up with a novel approach for the R36 GT-R Hybrid, called ATTESSA II Electric-All-Wheel Drive. The 3.8-liter twin-turbo V-6, now mates to an electric motor and drives the rear wheels through a revised seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox.,The front wheels are driven by two electric motors that can independently vector torque. Nissan says the system's combined output is around 800 hp and 847 lb-ft of torque, though it's still undergoing final tuning.

Changes to the GT-R Hybrid are drastic. Weight savings measures are everywhere, and no detail was too-small to overlook: the engine air filter has been removed, the navigation screen is now blanked, the glove box is now made of injection-molded thermoplastic olefin, and the tire pressure labels have been adjusted by a half-an-inch to lower the GT-R Hybrid's center of gravity.Nissan's preliminary performance estimates have the GT-R Hybrid accelerating form 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds, but engaging Ultra Attack Mode (internally called "Yamato Mode") makes it even faster. Designed to turn the fastest-lap at the Nürburgring, Ultra Attack Mode overboosts the turbos and turns the batteries into supercapacitors, resulting in a claimed 0-60 mph time of just 1.8 seconds and a quarter mile time 0.10 sec faster than the 2015 Corvette Z06.Tsujimoto notes that engaging Ultra Attack Mode instantly voids the GT-R Hybrid's warranty.Though Nissan has only given us a single advance image ahead of the GT-R Hybrid's New York National Auto Show debut, the Delta Wing-inspired new design cues clearly make the new Nissan GT-R Hybrid unlike anything else on the road. As Tsujimoto pointed out, "The new 2016 Nissan GT-R Hybrid will deliver unparalleled excitement on the road, both for its driver and those who happen to catch a glimpse of one on the road."The 2016 Nissan GT-R Hybrid will be officially veiled at the New York National Auto Show on April 61. Stay tuned for more exclusives leading up to the GT-R Hybrid's electrifying premiere.

I loved the styling of the GT-R back in 2012 before they had updated it, as the new one just seems like a polycarbonate square, with excess body paneling on its already reasonably-heavy frame.

That being said though, I think this car would be awesome with 800 horsepower...and it would be nice if we exclusively, but that would never happen. While I don't like the styling of the new car as much, I think the Chinese and Japanese make really great cars, and that the, say, Corolla for example is one of the best looking cars ever built. April Fools.

It is no April fool joke, it is real, the GTR will have a hybrid power train, it was on 7tune the japanese mag from March with 800 HP, with a formula one style kers co develop with williams, 595 Hp from the engine and 250 HP from the electric motors. Nissan even have more engine like the newly develop NR20A DI turbo that is a 2.0L 4 cylinder that push out more HP than the GT500 V8. We have seen nissan in the past only made these engines available in japan like the SR16VE 190 HP 1.6L engine non turbo, Apart from the GTR will the rest of the world get these new engines? only time will tell.

"The 2016 Nissan GT-R Hybrid will be officially veiled at the New York National Auto Show on April 61"

This has to be an April fools joke, April currently has 61 days in one month... Interest haha.Does anyone at Motortrend ever proof read anything before they post it on their website?I've noticed these kind of mistakes often recently...

I've been getting there mags for years and it didnt start til like 2 years ago that every month they had errors. And I'm not talking about little stuff (but its a magazine that's. well known so even little stuff is big stuff). Like in the front they say this car is on page whatever and it's not there. Or they label it one thing in the table of contents and when you view it, its different. They did that once for the Lexus LS series. Thet mess up track data, times, etc. and its not just one guy now. I swear, theiir boss for this department has to be the worst ever.

One of these years when a company is going to release a ridiculous car, they should announce it on April fools day, but then have it actually be real. Just to mess with everybody because nobody would believe it.

As vaunted as the ATESSA AWD system is, Sir Issac will not be prove wrong! Physics are always at play and unless this thing is hollowed-out, track-focused, and running non-DOT tires, its not happening. BUT: I did read where the Nismo is supposedly 2.0-2.2secs, so I could most certainly be wrong.

@RWS928s it is possible. Lingenfelter produced an 800+hp Corvette that did it in 1.9 a long while back. But that was on barely DOT legal drag tires. Even with AWD, Michelin Sport Cups or Pirelli P Zero Neros, I'd think that number would be hard to hit on non-drag tires. Besides, road races are won in the corners, not the quarter mile

@Gene Uenishi Well, the performance times are just on the outside edge of unreasonable. the most unreasonable part for me is how they'd make the GTR weigh less than 3800lbs with AWD, a Twin Turbo V6, Electric motors, AND battery.